Birdies and bogeys: Nothing but success at Tiger's tourney

Birdie: Call the AT&T National a win-win-win-win. Nice victory for Tiger Woods, a fun duel with up-and-comer Anthony Kim, TV ratings that tripled from last year, and best of all, a classy event by Woods and his people which paid tribute to our military. Pops would have been proud.

Bogey: The Golf Channel, late in its 90-minute Sunday window showing AT&T play, televised the final group of Woods and Kim playing the first hole. Then, it cut away from the action to air its "Golf Pregame Show" in the half hour between the end of its tournament broadcast and the start of the CBS coverage. Here's a radical idea: Keep showing the golf. With all due respect to talking heads Inga Hammons and Tim Rosaforte, that's not the pairing we wanted to watch.

Birdie: Sharon Shin, who in May as a West Linn sophomore won the Class 6A state high school title, added the Oregon Junior Girls title, beating her high school classmate, Morgan Thompson, on the 19th hole of their match play final at Oswego Lake Country Club. Blake Jones, a senior-to-be at Camas High School, beat Central Catholic senior Sam Mendez 1 up in the boys finals.

Bogey: The USGA changed its U.S. Women's Open criteria so only the top 10 on the LPGA Tour money list (as of June 1) get in without qualifying. Thus Michelle Wie, who is No. 12 on this week's money list and looking very ready to get her first win, isn't at Saucon Valley this week. By comparison, the men's U.S. Open field included the top 30 on the current money list.
--Mike Tokito